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Bell County prosecutors have dropped their efforts to impose the death penalty on Marvin Guy (pictured), an African American man who has been held eight years without trial in connection with the death of a white police officer during a botched no-knock raid in Killeen, Texas in May 2014. In the pre-dawn hours of May […]
(Reuters) – A bipartisan group of eight Colorado district attorneys has launched an online resource that provides an unprecedented amount of data about how their offices prosecute cases, part of a nationwide trend to improve transparency spurred by racial justice protests in 2020. The “data dashboards” unveiled on Sept . . .
July 19 (Reuters) – The U.S. Department of Justice is seeking broader authority from Congress to seize Russian oligarchs’ assets as a means to pressure Moscow over its invasion of Ukraine, a top prosecutor said on Tuesday. In testimony to the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Andrew Adams, who leads the department’s KleptoCapture task […]
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May 27 (Reuters) – The U.S. Justice Department on Friday extended its streak of victories in jury trials against rioters who stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, securing a guilty verdict in its prosecution of a New Jersey man facing a felony charge. After less than a day of deliberation, a federal jury in […]
BATON ROUGE, La. — Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards and his top lawyers privately watched a key video of Black motorist Ronald Greene drawing his final breaths in his deadly 2019 arrest six months before prosecutors even knew the footage existed. While the Democratic governor has distanced himself from allegations of a cover-up in the […]
April 21, 2022, 6:51 PM Defendant said juror struck because she was Black Didn’t make out valid claim of racial discrimination A Black defendant representing himself during a trial on drug and gun charges failed to make out a claim of racial discrimination by only saying a prospective juror was struck from the jury pool […]
Hello, and happy Thursday, On Monday morning, I’ll be in Memphis, where Pamela Moses is set to make her first court appearance since having her six-year prison sentence for trying to register to vote overturned. Moses, a 44-year-old Black Lives Matter activist, will probably find out whether prosecutors intend to pursue a new trial against […]
Firefighters drive towards a fire at a factory after a Russian attack, on the outskirts of Kharkiv, Ukraine, on April 15. (Felipe Dana/AP) Russian attacks have intensified in a range of locations in eastern Ukraine including Kharkiv, Luhansk and Donetsk, according to Ukrainian military and regional officials. Russian forces appear to . . .
NEW YORK, March 29 (Reuters) – U.S. prosecutors on Tuesday sought to cast doubt on the testimony of the wife of a former Goldman Sachs (GS.N) banker, who is on trial over allegations he helped loot Malaysia’s 1MDB sovereign wealth fund. Roger Ng, Goldman’s former . . .